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Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
New American Standard Bible
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
New American Standard Bible
3 If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many [a]they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper (A)burial, then I say, “Better (B)the miscarriage than he, 4 for a miscarriage comes in futility and goes into darkness; and its name is covered in darkness. 5 It has not even seen the sun nor does it know it; yet [b]it is better off than that man.
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- Ecclesiastes 6:3 Lit the days of his years
- Ecclesiastes 6:5 Lit more rest has this one than that
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